100 Tonson Gallery invites you to experience the world of female patients who live in a psychiatric ward. “Great Times Message: Storytellers of the Town” is the latest work of Araya Rasjdamreonsook, an installation artist and a provocateur who creates works that respond to her own curiosity about life, death, and womanhood.

Araya is a feminist and an artist whose work deals with psychological aspect of human beings at their most vulnerable state. In this latest work, she interviewed patients at the psychiatric hospital. The identity of the patients is obscured, and only voices can be heard through the blurry figures. Each patient is placed in the same position, sitting in the chair and telling their story. The unrehearsed, unscripted tale is undeniably provocative and compelling. In each and every account, relationship, life, experiences, activities, time and place are revealed. The authentication of the stories, although questionable, raises question of how one mind works. The video questions the fact of life, and the state of mind of the teller. “Great Times Message:  Storytellers of the Town”, will leave you wonder about your sanity. 

Also on view is a video installation of the artist’s own story about pregnancy and social context. 

Stories of patients who are mentally-ill and of Araya’s are eerily similar and interesting--they are of women in the same state of mind—unbalanced, vulnerable, and longing to find someone to listen.


“Great Times Message: Storytellers of the Town” will be on view at 100 Tonson Gallery only 4 days.